Small Basic Examples

A lot of examples for the Small Basic programming language can be found here & here.

Developing Flash for Free

You can get FlashDevelop the free IDE from here. You should also take a look at the Wiki here for other useful information & the Flex 3 SDK can be downloaded from here.

More information can be found in this thread on the DBF forum.

Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer

It looks very good & I can't wait for it to be released.

Google Earth Ubuntu

Installing Google Earth in Ubuntu is extremely simple.

Visit the following page here for instructions & add the Medibuntu repository to your Package Manager.

Adding a Launcher

The way you create a custom launcher for a program in Ubuntu has changed.

The new way is explained here on the Ubuntu Wiki.

OOP Concepts

Useful information about the concepts involved in Object Oriented Programming can be found here.

Bizarre Code::Blocks Problem

I've been using Code::Blocks for a long time now & have never had any problems with it. But recently I started to receive the following error.

• mingw32-g++.exe: no input files

I'd installed Code::Blocks & the MinGW Compiler seperately using the MinGW Automated Installer from here.

I noticed that whenever I attempted to compile a project the complete Compiler output was being displayed. So I checked the Compiler settings & noticed that the following option was being used.

• -print-search-dirs

When I removed it, I could compile without any problems.

When to use OOP

I was looking at the jobs on the Infinity Ward website & I noticed that one of the skill requirements for a Senior Software Engineer was the following...

• Appreciation of when not to use Object Oriented Programming

There is a Blog at the Infinity Ward site which can be found here, where there's a lot of other information.

Prime Numbers

Interesting thread here on the Ubuntu Forums about different ways which can be found to calculate Prime Numbers. A lot of different programming languages have been used in the thread too.

Invalid Server Certificate

Have you ever received the following error message.

"The certificate will not be valid until 27/03/2009 22:20."

Then you probably need to check your Time & Date Settings.

Battlefield 1943 Online Gameplay

Excellent video here on YouTube showing multiplayer footage taken from Battlefield 1943.

You can get the game now on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 points.

Interesting Blogs

Mozilla has a blog here & Google has one here.

Both blogs contain a lot of useful information.

Google Chrome OS

Google has announced it is working on an Operating System for Netbook computers.

You can read more in this blog post at the techcrunch blog.

More information can be found in this report on the BBC Website.

Firefox WMV Plugin

Back in the late nineties I used to watch a television programme called 'The Asian Football Show', after doing some searching on Google I discovered that the show had been renamed 'Football Asia'. I also found they had a site here where you can watch footage from various matches.

When I tried watching the videos in Firefox I discovered that they wouldn't appear. At first I thought it was a problem with the Adblock Add-on. But when I viewed the page with IE Tab I was prompted to upgrade my WMV player. I could now view the pages in the IE rendering engine but still not Firefox. So I downloaded the Firefox WMV Plugin from Microsoft & restarted Firefox & now I can watch the videos perfectly.

Aurel Basic v1.1

A new version of Aurel Basic v1.1 can be downloaded from the Aurel Basic forum here.

Fun with C

Interesting thread on the JREF Forum here about the kind of fun you can have with the C Programming Language.

MIPS Architecture & SPIM

Here are some links for people interested in MIPS & SPIM.

I also found selected pages from the book 'Computer Organization & Design' on Google Books.